C.A.R.P Tournament Series Northeast Regionals on the Seneca River in Baldwinsville: One of the many carp caught by anglers Mike Waldrup of Gaffney, SC, and Tony Crawford of Kings Mountain, NC, being reeled in.They are fishing at peg 7 along State Fair Blvd. near the Villege Green Apartments. Nicholas Lisi / The Post-Standard

The owner of a pay-to-fish carp fishing lake in North Carolina and his fishing partner pulled away from the field Saturday morning with a flurry of catches to win the CARP Tournament Series Northeast Regionals on the Seneca River.

Tony Crawford of Kings Mountain, N.C. (left)) and Mike Waldrup, of Gaffney, S.C., pulled in a total of 84 fish, weighing 1,360 pounds, 6 ounces during 50 straight hours of fishing to win the event’s $3,000 grand prize. They bested a 41-team field, which included participants from across the United States, along with six foreign countries (Canada, England, Romania, Hungary, the Czech Republican and Poland).

The team of Bill Syler and Richie Eldridge, from Akron, Ohio finished second, taking home $2,500. The third place finishers, Mihai Acui and Bogdan Bucur, representing Romania, finished third, earning $1,500.

Acui and Bucur ended up being the competition’s top money earners. They also won “The Big Four” category (the largest cumulative weight of top four fish) to earn an extra $2,000 – for a total of $3,500 in earnings.

For more on this story see the Outdoors page in Sunday's edition of The Post-Standard.

CARP Series Northeast Regionals in BaldwinsvilleTony Crawford, of Kings Mountain, N.C., and his partner, Mike Waldrup, of Gaffney, S.C., bested 40 other two-person teams to win the Fourth Annual CARP Series Tournament Saturday on the Seneca River.